Famous Good As New Poems by Famous Poets

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Dely

...Jes' lak toddy wahms you thoo'
Sets yo' haid a reelin',
Meks you ovah good and new,
Dat 's de way I 's feelin'.
Seems to me hit 's summah time,
Dough hit 's wintah reely,
I 's a feelin' jes' dat prime—
An' huh name is Dely.
Dis hyeah love 's a cu'rus thing,
Changes 'roun' de season,
Meks you sad or meks you sing,
'Dout no urfly reason.
Sometimes...Read more of this...
by Laurence Dunbar, Paul


Hope

...bs are new:
And Faith, once more, is mine
Faithfully, but Charity
Writes hopefully about a new
Asylum -- but Hope is as good as new.
Woe's me! woe's me! In Folly's mailbox
Still laughs the postcard, Hope:
Your uncle in Australia
Has died and you are Pope,
For many a soul has entertained
A mailman unawares --
And as you cry, Impossible,
A step is on the stairs....Read more of this...
by Jarrell, Randall

Oh see how thick the goldcup flowers

..., 
And man and maid had best be glad 
Before the world is old. 
What flowers to-day may flower to-morrow, 
But never as good as new. 
--Suppose I wound my arm right round-- 
''Tis true, young man, 'tis true.' 

Some lads there are, 'tis shame to say, 
That only court to thieve, 
And once they bear the bloom away 
'Tis little enough they leave. 
Then keep your heart for men like me 
And safe from trustless chaps. 
My love is true and all for you. 
'Perhaps, young man, perhaps....Read more of this...
by Housman, A E

The Flour Bin

...ers' carts run out – 
Still keeps a "fifty" in it 
Against a time of drought. 

It was my father made it, 
It stands as good as new, 
And of the others like it 
There still remain a few. 
God grant, when drought shall strike us, 
The young will "take a pull", 
And the old folk their strength anew 
To keep those flour bins full....Read more of this...
by Lawson, Henry

The Wounded Bird

...ndow-sill, so rarely
Shared the delicious crumbs thrown into the yard.
Here is a delicate fragment and her a tit-bit
As good as new. And here's a morsel of relish
And cake and bread and bread and bread and bread."

At night, in the wide bed
With the leaves and flowers
Gently weaving in the darkness,
She is like a wounded bird at rest on a pool.
Timidly, timidly she lifts her head from her wing.
In the sky there are two stars
Floating, shining...
O waters--do not cover me!
I w...Read more of this...
by Mansfield, Katherine


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